Sermon Tone Analysis

The Consequence of Sin

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I. Sin is a violation of God’s righteous character ()

I. Sin is a violation of God’s righteous character ()

I. Sin is a violation of God’s righteous character ()

I. Sin is a violation of God’s righteous character ()

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I. Sin Brings Separation from God ()

A. Transgression (PARABRASIS) means overstepping the limits.

I. God confronts man promptly

to miss the mark, fail in duty

Genesis 3:9

II.

Sin

Genesis

I. God confronts in love and questions each one

a.

Sin is to violate God’s righteous standard

Did God not know where they were?

1 john 3:4

Sin brings with it tragic consequences.

b.

Sin cannot go unseen by God

i.

So I hid myself...Adam thought he could hide ()

II.

Sin brings with it tragic consequences

ii.

The serpent deceived me...Eve thought she could play the victim ()

The serpent deceived me thought she could play the victim ()

II.

Sin must be Accounted for to God ()

a. God requires there to be confession yet none is to be heard.

b.

Adam is asked first because he had been placed responsible of the garden

i. “The woman who you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate”...Adam admits to having done it but puts the blame on the woman.

c.

Eve is questioned, why did she not help Adam to keep God’s command?

i.

The serpent deceived me, and I ate...Eve admits to eating but passes the blame to the serpent.

III. - Sin is treated individually by God

A. - The serpent is found guilty without possible restoration

i. - Because you have done...God does not question the serpent.

He knows it is under the control of Satan.

God makes it abundantly clear that the curse will fall upon him because he was guilty not because God was unfair.

ii. - done this…what had the serpent done?

a. “You surely will not die!”

The serpent’s sin was to lie, slander, gossip against God.

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2 Corinthians 2:20-21

ii.

Cursed are you more than all cattle...The serpent is cursed more than all other animals as a reminder of the curse.

all the animal kingdom is cursed, the serpent event more.

iii.

God removes any possible future alliance between the woman and Satan.

Satan may have been thinking that him and Eve might go places to gain more popularity in his quest to become like God.

B. - (What is this you have done)?

Eve is tried and found guilty and must now suffer the consequences

i. - I will greatly multiply your pain...She will now suffer pain

Eve (representing all women) will suffer pain in general, especially in childbirth.

ii. - There is some confusion as to the meaning of your desire will be for your husband... if Eve would desire to rule over her husband or if she would desire to have her husband’s affection yet the curse brings pain in the husband/wife relationship.

C. Because you...have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you...Adam is found guilty and must suffer the penalty of his sin

i. Cursed is the ground...His short-lived fiasco would have long enduring results…all the days of your life.

IV. - A promise of God to give Hope

A. You will surely die...The first promise had come true.

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B. He shall bruise you on the head...Mankind could know this promise would too!

V. - the man called his wife’s name Eve...Man responds to God’s promise by naming his wife Eve

VI. - The LORD GOD made garments of skin...an animal’s life was taken, to signify the future importance of the fulfillment to his promise through the person of His Son

VII. - Sin has an Eternal Penalty

A. - the man has become like one of Us...

B. - the LORD God sent him out…God removes man from the garden.

C. - He station the cherubim and the flaming sword…to guard the way...God secures anyone from accessing the tree of life

D.

There is no way for Adam to get back what he once had been given by God.

Their disobedience alienated them from God and each other.

E. The consequences would last his whole life, the life of his children and for generations to come.

in fact, it has been over 6000 years, and the consequences of Adam’s sin go on!!

1. Question, didn’t Adam weigh the consequences?

Question, didn’t Adam weigh the consequences of his sin?

Evidently not.

How could he foresee the travesty and devastation that would result.

Their disobedience alienated them from God and each other.

Dockery, D. S., Butler, T. C., Church, C. L., Scott, L. L., Ellis Smith, M. A., White, J. E., & Holman Bible Publishers (Nashville, T. .

(1992).

Holman Bible Handbook (p.

124).

Nashville, TN: Holman Bible Publishers.

What about today, surely it’s not the same is it?

Though we aren’t guilty of Adam’s sin, we do suffer the consequences of Adam’s sin.

This shows us how seriously God looks at sin.

Didn’t Jesus pay for the sins of the world?

Jesus paid for the sins of the world, but it only covers those who have been forgiven, that is, those who have placed their faith in the finished work of Christ.

Is God keeping a record of sins today?

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